Graphic logo, black angular L-shaped form on white background, minimalist geometric design with bold right-angle composition.

Lina Vargas De La Hoz

Transformable object assembled into a bed, chair, and side tables made of white modular elements displayed on a white rug.
Transformable object shown disassembled into multiple white furniture components, including panels and cushions, arranged on a white rug.
Transformable object, white modular coffin-furniture hybrid structure, closed rectangular form resting on white carpet, exhibited in minimalist gallery space.

A transformable object generates temporary spaces by shifting between furniture and coffin. The object can be reconfigured, used by living bodies, and ultimately employed as a coffin after death. Created in collaboration with students during an Artist-in-Residence at the Sculpture Program of Anne Arundel Community College, the work explores transitions between everyday function and existential condition. Ordinary actions such as sitting, lying, or working flow seamlessly into spatial and existential states. The object transforms from functional furniture into a place of retreat — extending to a final resting place. This ambiguity interweaves life, use, and finitude within a single structure. Movement, use, and context determine each manifestation. Space becomes visible not as static architecture, but as a temporary practice emerging from action, body, and material.

Publication details

Type

Sculpture

Year

2012

Materials

Textile, wood, foam, structural elements

Dimentions

variable (as furniture: coffin/bed 185 × 70 × 43 cm; tables each 35 × 40 × 76 cm; chair 99 × 70 × 43 cm) Video documentation: 1:22 min